Guido Essays

  • The Life And Biography Of Guido Reni

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    Guido Reni, born in Bologna on November 4, 1575, was the son of Daniele Reni, a musician and singer, and Ginevra Pozzi. He was baptized in the Church of San Lorenzo and attended the Grammar School of Gugliemini in Bologna. His father showed him how to sing and taught him to play the harpsichord and other instruments. Instead of practicing to follow in his father's footsteps, Reni spent his time making sketches and clay figures. It wasn't until Denis Calvaert, a famous Flemish painter, saw some of

  • Guido Van Rossum: How Python Changed My Life

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    like C++. For example a normal indentation show the beginning of a new block of code or a bigger white space shows that it is the end of a block of code. You can also reuse code and it has better readability than the other languages. Python has led Guido van Rossum to many new opportunities in his life and career. (1996) “Today, I can safely say that Python has changed my life. I have moved to a different continent. I spend my working days developing large systems in Python, when I'm not hacking on

  • Jersey Shore: Macho Man Who Is Trying To Get Girls

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    guys, and the guys do typical things, that said, the bottom line, is the show is an awful influence on American culture and sexual identities. The life style of the members fro Jersey Shore is that of what they refer to themselves as, Guido. The lifestyle of a Guido is “GTL,” partying, clubbing, sex, fighting and drama. “GTL” the most famous of them all for Jersey Shore stands for Gym, Tan, and Laundry. GTL presents this macho man type personification that men have to live up to. With the popularity

  • The Importance Of Bomance

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    Let us journey back to two years ago as I stroll down the crowded hallways of my high school. Accompanying me to my next class is my best friend of four years, whom I have spent nearly every waking minute with since the day our paths crossed. Arriving just as the bell begins to scream ferociously, he pats me on the back and smiles, “Have fun, man! Love ya!” and we hug. One of our peers walks past us and snickers to my teacher, “Give them a minute; they’re bromancing.” The significance behind my interest

  • Guido And Dora Analysis

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    Guido and Dora earn a living in two completely opposite ways. Guido is a serving important people in a restaurant type place, but he is doing more / talking / than anything else. Later we see Dora at a school assembly where she and other teachers are present. The place where Guido works looks more like a hotel lobby than a restaurant, yet he is dressed in a waiter’s uniform and serving food. I also think part of his job includes public relations, or entertaining with his gift of gab. The two men

  • The Self-hatred of Kochan in Confessions of a Mask

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    The Self-hatred of Kochan in Confessions of a Mask In his semi-autobiographical novel, Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima examines the struggle for acceptance by a man living outside of the socially accepted norms. A motif that strongly pervades this novel is death and the images of blood associated with it. Kochan, a Japanese adolescent living in post-war Japan, struggles with his homosexuality and his desire to be "normal." In order to survive, he must hide behind a mask of propriety. At a

  • Young Girl Writing A Love Letter By Antonio Rotari

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    This is a painting by Pietro Antonio Rotari called “Young Girl Writing a Love Letter”.  The painting is painted vertical with the background painted with a dark tone color. From the top probable one fourth of the painting is shaded from dark at each corner to light when coming to the middle. From top to bottom two fourth of the painting you start to see a woman face. From left to right you start with the background shaded in a dark tone and getting slightly lighter as you get to the middle. As you

  • Guido Style and Social Identity

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    popularized in the recent years. This is the “Guido” lifestyle. Made popular by the hit MTV television show “Jersey Shore”, the term Guido was not always accepted in the positive tone that the it is given in popular media today. Some consider it an inappropriate slur and racist term (Cohen 1-2). While that may be the case in the past, today “Jersey Shore” and other mass media have most certainly contributed to the mainstream acceptance and popularity of the Guido style and have changed the direction of

  • La Vita e Bella

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    “Many people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.” Guido Orefice, the main character in La Vita é Bella was not one of those people. In the movie, Guido is a man who lives every second, taking nothing for granted and leaving no opportunity wasted. In La Vita é Bella, Life is Beautiful, the main character Guido Orefice travels to Arezzo, Italy, with his friend Ferruccio, in hopes of eventually opening up a bookstore. On the journey to the city, Guido meets a schoolteacher named Dora, immediately falling

  • Guido Anselmi: Film Analysis

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    The film 8 ½ centers on a filmmaker, Guido Anselmi, who struggles with the making of a new movie. Throughout the film, we see Guido’s fantasies, dreams, memories, and reality and often the line in between these moments is blurred. It is hard to indisputably tell whether a particular scene is truly happening in the reality of the film. What we do know, though, is that every scene is happening, either consciously or not, for Guido. Even if he does not really live in a house with all of the women in

  • Ulysses Alighieri

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    enemies -- the Greeks who conquered Troy, and tried to destroy their ancestors. However Ulysses is not placed with Brutus into the mouth of ... ... middle of paper ... ...by his utter shame in his position, for in the next Canto, another “flame”, Guido da Montefeltro, is very anxious to speak to the poet. I think that Ulysses does not talk freely because he does not completely deserve to be punished for his sin, since he did not fully intend to fool his crew into killing them, but rather he was driven

  • Francesca's Style in Canto V of Dante's Inferno

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    Francesca's Style in Canto V of Dante's Inferno Canto V of Dante's Inferno begins and ends with confession. The frightening image of Minos who «confesses» the damned sinners and then hurls them down to their eternal punishment contrasts with the almost familial image of Francesca and Dante, who confess to one another. In a real sense confession seems to be defective or inadequate in Hell. The huddled masses who declare their sins to Minos do so because they are compelled to declare or make

  • Don Quixote, Ann Frank and Guido: Optimistic Characters

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    takes her away and brings her to steps where he sends red silk spiraling down the stairs. It is very romantic, and lovely, and Guido uses his imagination to improvise, and try to make Dora love him. Finally, Guido’s carefree personality makes him make the best out of situations. When Joshua sees the sign on the bakery that reads “No Dogs or Jews” he questions it, and Guido creates a lie that explains it. He says, “Oh, that. "Not Allowed" signs are the latest trend! The other day, I was in a shop with

  • Inventor Of Modern Musical Notation: Guido D Arezzo

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    Inventor of Modern Musical Notation: Guido d’Arezzo Musical notation is a form of writing or printing of musical notes, symbols and staves to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice. Various styles of music results in various different music notation methods too. For example, classical music performers use staves and note heads on sheet music, while country music musicians use Nashville Number System. Although many ancient cultures used symbols

  • As a Future Educator of Music, I am Inspired by the Benedictine Monk, Guido Arentinus

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    sustainable amount of self knowledge to plunk out notes for our future choirs or assist our own rehearsals in a practice room. Guido of Arezzo, musical therapist, pedagogue and author of Micrologus suggested a lack of common knowledge is one of the main causes for an individual to not put forth the appropriate efforts to achieve a perfect understanding of the task. Guido Arentinus began his musical and educational journey as a monk at Benedictine in Italy, and established a reputation for his ability

  • Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful

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    fighting for what you love. Before Guido and Dora are together, Guido continuously accidentally falls into Dora. Once at her house, then again in the town square. This is ironic because Guido ends up falling in love with Dora. Their first few interactions are awkward and strange, but Guido doesn’t let that stop him from eventually falling in love with her. In the movie, Life is Beautiful (1997), setting and mood are used to show the importance of fighting for

  • Comparative Essay

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    Vladek and Guido use their skills and intelligence to endure a genocide that killed over 6 million Jews and 11 million people in total. Although sadly Guido did not make it through the Holocaust, his wife Dora and Son Giosué survived, thanks to the help of Guido. Vladek survived by using his many talents in the prison camps whereas Guido survived by his cunning intelligence and positive attitude. In the Books Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman, the author uses his fathers story of survival to create

  • Life Is Beautiful Film Analysis

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    received seven Oscar nominations and which won three including best actor for Roberto Benigni. Critics describe the film as a soul touching masterpiece, and genius film. The films can be divided in two parts; the first part tells the love story of Guido a carefree Jew waiter and bookkeeper, and Dora a rich non-Jew school teacher. The second part of the film is about the holocaust using comedy and satire; getting mixed reviews for this reason accusing the film of lack of realism and connection to historical

  • Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni

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    first half of the film revolves around the romantic love story of Guido and Dora. Guido manages to know exactly where to find Dora and does whatever he can to be around her. Guido makes himself stand out to her by appearing magical. He does this by conveniently being at the right place at just the right time. Dora was engaged to marry an unpleasant, self-centered banker, but Guido rescues her from her own engagement party. Somehow, Guido manages to get the girl of his dreams by simply sweeping Dora off

  • Life Is Beautiful Film Analysis

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    inspirational movie about a Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido, who falls in love with the kind and beautiful Dora. They become married and conceive a boy whom they name Giosue. Years later, as the explosion of war came into the picture of their family, Guido and Dora must survive their separate ways at a concentration camp. At the same time Guido tries to make-believe a game for Giosue to still have a good childhood in the concentration camp. Through this terrible time Guido still tried to take care of his family